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Dialing in new skates, do I shave the toe and heel or shorten the radius? Decisions....Decisions.

He loved being in fiery car wrecks?

AHL teams around here have been doing that for a few years now. Grass roots marketing.

Are these kind of things happening to teammates and/or other guys in the league? If not then perhaps the issue could be how you're playing that is making you a target.

It isn't teens they are trying to draw in with all black skates, it is the traditionalists.

Grown men acting like high school girls.

Cardinal rule of new skates: Do not get rid of the old ones until you are sure the new ones are going to work for you.

Sunday afternoon AHL games always struggle during the NFL season.

Ortiz grand slam = Roberts steal?

Slow driving nut jobs who take it personally when you finally pass them on the right.

If Easton follows their usual M.O. then the V9 will be the next iteration of their tapered shaft/blade setup.

It will still keep the blade from opening up during shots. Proper shots still have the puck spin across the blade from mid/heel to toe. Guys known for "heavy shots" that still break thru goalies do so because they generate a lot of spin on the puck.

Read it again, the Lidstrom is a heel-shooting pattern. Try a couple off of the toe and you'll see why.

Heat the entire ankle area and then tie the skates making sure that the tightness is consisistent all the way up the eyelets. The problem you're most likely having is that the top eyelets are pulling tighter/closer together than those below it, causing the top of the boot to turn in and abrade your ankle.

It is similar down here with property taxes. That is the escrow amount I was referring to. Part of my "mortgage" payment each month includes an amount that is held in escrow to pay property taxes.

It sounds like the "advisor" dropped the ball when helping you plan. I put it in quotes because sometimes these advisors are just folks who took a night class and passed a simple exam. The only thing I can think of is that you didn't have that much in escrow with Bank X which would have been your's when breaking the mortgage and so when Bank Y was looking for the money that they required in escrow they just yanked it out of the excess of your loan since you weren't cutting a check.

The Iginla has been the E7. Are you saying that the E7 no longer exists going forward? If the closest thing will be the Landeskog clone then Easton will have lost me and my only option will be the Bauer P12 through MyBauer.

I don't know that St. Louis got fleeced. Paajarvi is still young and on the rise and with Edmonton's track record the last few years, that second round pick could be a round 1 prospect for round 2 money. I think the deal was good for both teams and players.

He struggled last season and tumbled down the depth chart. Hopefully, he can rebound with the change of scenery.

Not if you do it like we did, our's was on the beach of Disney's island in the Bahamas during a 4 night cruise. The guest list was "this is what we're doing and we understand if you can't do it" to all friends and family. The wedding planning was filling out a questionaire.

That can be said for any skate line. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few models to come out that lean on the Mako design concepts but at various levels of stripped down materials/options.

Do they post who is on the team or just who showed up? My team has 10 paid roster spots but during the summer it is pretty rare that 10 guys show up.

To be fair to your old team, a full roster and a full squad every night are two very different things in summer hockey.

At my age and being down to once a week, it will be tough to justify that much money on a skate. Both of my last two pairs were top end bought on clearance. That said, the rep I skate with is dying to get me back into a CCM/Reebok skate and I may just bite the bullet since I saved so much on my last two pairs.

Not really a horrible position, he'll grab a piece of steel from a skate he has in stock and will then replace that piece when he gets stock of replacement steel.